I do think that poetry is important though,...... Quote by "Charles Bukowski"

I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.
— Charles Bukowski

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Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.
— Charles Bukowski

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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.
— Charles Bukowski

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great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.
— Charles Bukowski The People Look Like Flowers at Last

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when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we all agreed on the same thing; we'd all like to die fucking (although none of us had done any fucking) and now that we are hardly kids any longer we think more about how not to die and although we're ready most of us would prefer to do it alone under the sheets now that most of us have fucked our lives away.
— Charles Bukowski You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense

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regret is mostly caused by not having done anything.
— Charles Bukowski You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense

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